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QuickPick IconAbout QuickPick

QuickPick is an application and document launcher designed to feel as if it's part of Mac OS X itself. Just drag and drop any number of applications or documents into the QuickPick window, and they'll only ever be a mouse click, flick, or key press away.

QuickPick is a great place to store documents and applications that you use frequently. When it comes to launching, QuickPick replaces the roles of Finder, Spotlight, Stacks, and the Dock with one quick and easy interface, that is fast to use with the keyboard or the mouse.

You can easily drag and drop any number of files, folders, and applications into the QuickPick window, arrange them in any way you want, and easily access them with a quick flick of the mouse into a screen corner, or keyboard shortcut. By storing the files and applications you use most frequently in QuickPick, you always have an instant way to launch them. QuickPick is also a great place to put the applications you use often, but not quite frequently enough to justify a space in your Mac OS X Dock, freeing it up so it's easier to find the items you do want there.



Activating QuickPick

QuickPick displays full screen, hiding all windows, showing just the QuickPick page and the Mac OS X Dock. To activate QuickPick you have several options. If the QuickPick icon is visible in the Dock (it can be hidden in QuickPick's preferences), you can click on its icon to reveal it. If the QuickPick global menu is visible in the menubar, you can use the "Show" menu item in it to active.

The two more convenient options for activating and hiding are a keyboard shorcut, or flicking the mouse into a screen corner, both of which can be setup in QuickPick's preferences. Using these two options requires no mouse clicking, and thus works great when adding items into QuickPick via drag and drop, and also when dragging and item from QuickPick elsewhere on the system

To deactivate QuickPick, you can hide it with Command—H, Command—Tab to another application, use the keyboard shortcut or screen corner, press Escape, or (with the setting turned on in QuickPick's preferences), click on an empty spot in the page background.